Abstract
We consider decompositions of the incidence structure of points and lines of PG(n, q) (n≥3) with equally many point and line classes. Such a decomposition, if line-tactical, must also be point-tactical. (This holds more generally in any 2-design.) We conjecture that such a tactical decomposition with more than one class has either a singleton point class, or just two point classes, one of which is a hyperplane. Using the previously mentioned result, we reduce the conjecture to the case n=3, and prove it when q2+q+1 is prime and for very small values of q. The truth of the conjecture would imply that an irreducible collineation group of PG(n, q) (n≥3) with equally many point and line orbits is line-transitive (and hence known).
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 91-102 |
| Number of pages | 12 |
| Journal | Linear Algebra and its Applications |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue number | C |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 1982 |
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